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On September 18, the International Applied Science Conference entitled “Smart Energy Systems 2019” started at the Kazan State Power Engineering University. The co-organiser is Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

The Conference comprises four sections. The first one is “Energy Systems and Complexes”, which discusses issues related to the production, transmission, and consumption of heat and electric energy. The second section aims at automation and electricity meters. The third section is “Electromechanics”. The fourth one is devoted to management and economics in the energy sector.

The International Academic Committee of the Conference includes scientists from Russia, Austria, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, Turkey, and India. The invited Co-Chair is Professor Pietro Zunino, Director of the Department for Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transportation Engineering (DIME) at the University of Genova.

Also yesterday, the Russia’s only laboratory was opened with BAUR (Austria) equipment for the diagnostics of underground cable networks. The equipment installed in the courtyard of KSPEU will be able to locate underground cable faults.

Based on information by KSPEU press service

These days mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the legendary small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is important to note that this professional holiday appeared in 2010 precisely owing to him. This calendar date is a tribute of great respect and gratitude to people whose work is inseparably associated with the defence industry.

This day unites people of various trades: designers and scientists, assembly masters and production organisers. Professionalism, great diligence and the ability to concentrate all efforts on achieving the set goals – these are the qualities that are inherent in the glorious workers of the industry. Their products serve as the guarantor of peace, stability, and security of the state, strengthening its powers and independence.

There is a peaceful sky above us today, and this is obviously the contribution from veterans of the military-industrial complex, who created a reliable defence shield over the country. I wish you all new professional victories and achievements, good health, peace, prosperity to you and your families!

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov

Today, the delegation from Tatarstan headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov is on a visit to Uzbekistan.

The programme began with a visit to the Angren Special Economic Zone, where a meeting was held with directors of the Birinci Rezinotekhnika Zavodi and the Tashkent Agricultural Machinery Plant (TQXTZ). In addition, a guided tour to the production sites was organised for the guests.

An important event within the visit was the first meeting of the working group for cooperation development between Tatarstan and Uzbekistan. The main issue of the meeting is a discussion of the areas of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two regions in such fields as engineering, petrochemicals, IT, digital technologies, as well as professional education.

At the end of the meeting, the co-chairs of the working group, Albert Karimov and Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Elyor Ganiev, signed a document approving the composition of the joint working group.

In addition, POZIS and the Uzbekistan Association of Manufacturers and Suppliers of Medical Equipment signed a Memorandum of Intent.

The first working day ended at the International Business Centre, where B2B meetings were held with companies’ representatives from Tatarstan and Uzbekistan.

Deputy Minister Aleksey Savelchev held a meeting today with representatives of Greencross Export Pvt. Ltd. (India). The agenda included the issue of localising production facilities of the Indian company in Tatarstan.

The Greencross representative, Chairman & Managing Director Tarun Kumar Tyagi, spoke about the activities and projects of the company.

The company was founded in 2003 in the city of Ahmedabad (India) and has since been a leading exporter of pharmaceutical products from India.

Greencross Export Pvt. Ltd. supplies pharmaceutical products and services to many countries in Africa, Latin America and several Gulf countries.

During the meeting, the representative of the Indian company saw presentations of the industrial sites in Tatarstan with potential in cooperation, such as the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, the Technopolis Himgrad, and the Karpov Chemical Plant.

Deputy Minister Aleksey Savelchev met today with representative of the Technological Sovereignty Exports Association Mirjalol Khusanov.

The introductory meeting was held at a working level, the participants discussed the potential for cooperation between the Association and companies in Tatarstan.

Mirjalol Khusanov is responsible for the development of foreign projects in the Association. At the meeting, he spoke in detail about the features of this community.

According to him, the Association represents the “second step” of ensuring the entry of Russian manufacturers of high-value-added goods and services to the international market.

The Association is working to create centres of Russian technology as points of continuous presence of Russia’s companies and universities, channels for science and technology exports and imports of talent in foreign countries. Such centres are already being created in Vietnam and Turkey and are scheduled in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Africa, the UAE, and the CIS countries.

Aleksey Savelchev emphasised that the Association’s activities are of interest to industrial enterprises in Tatarstan, both for exporting their goods and services, and for obtaining new knowledge and technology from foreign partners.

Today, the first introductory meeting was held between Minister Albert Karimov and Consul General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Kazan Zhanbolat Murzalin.

At a working level, the parties discussed issues of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two regions. The Consul General outlined the most interesting areas in terms of expertise existing in Tatarstan in developing the gas engine fuel market, as well as on the supply of neuro-simulators to educational institutions in Kazakhstan.

“Of particular interest among the akims of our republic are the developments of Tatarstan in the field of agriculture,” said Zhanbolat Murzalin.

Particular attention was paid to the organisation of bilateral visits. Consul Murzalin noted the high potential and progress of partnership relations.

The Consul General also spoke about the upcoming visits of Kazakhstan delegations to Tatarstan. The visits, in particular, are expected to the Kazan Agro-Industrial Park and other industrial enterprises of the republic.

Many good parting words were said today on the RariTEK Group site to the participants of the Blue Corridor - Gas into Engines 2019 gas motor rally. Representatives of the Gazprom Gas Motor Fuel and KAMAZ, top executives of the RariTEK Group, colleagues, relatives, and friends came to support the participants.

The participating vehicles include the KAMAZ 651156 truck tractor with a grain-carrying semitrailer, the LOTOS 105 bus of RariTEK production, and the Hyundai HD 78 van that run on liquefied natural gas (methane). The rally also involved the crews of the Gazprom Gas Motor Fuel and KAMAZ.

The rally will start on September 20. The event is organised by Gazprom and Germany’s Uniper SE. The race features cars, trucks and passenger vehicles powered by compressed and liquefied natural gas. The rally demonstrates the reliability of methane-driven vehicles and focuses on stress on long-distance and ultra-long-distance transportation opportunities for passengers and goods.

The length of the rally section in Russia is 2,760 kilometres. Its route will pass through the Rostovskaya, Voronezhskaya, Belgorodskaya, Moskovskaya, Novgorodskaya, and Leningradskaya oblasts. The race will finish on October 3 at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre in St. Petersburg.

Based on information by RariTEK Group

On September 14, 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted the meetings of the Selection Committee for the Republic’s Engineer of the Year Contest under the chairmanship of Ibragim Khisameyev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Head of the Department for Refrigerating Machines and Technologies of the KNRTU, former Director General of Kazancompressormash. Experts in 12 areas were representatives of key enterprises and educational institutions of the republic.

Within the framework of the meetings, the Committee considered all applications submitted for participation in the contest, as well as evaluation criteria. Following the scoring system, the members of the Committee selected 108 winners of the first, correspondence, phase of the contest who will be invited to participate in the second, on-site phase, which is scheduled for September 25-27, 2019.

The list of Phase 1 winners of the republic’s Engineer of the Year contest was published at the link (in Russian).

The Consulate General of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Kazan organised official and ceremonial events dedicated to the 28th anniversary of Independence of Uzbekistan.

In the morning, the building of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Tatarstan saw a presentation of the pilgrimage tourism to Uzbekistan, after which the opening of the Uzbek Cultural Centre of Kazan took place at the Kazan Cooperative Institute.

In the afternoon, a meeting with the heads of trade union organisations of Tatarstan was held in the Kazan City Hall; the organisers of the event held a presentation of the tourist potential in Uzbekistan.

The business part of the programme ended with B2B meetings with representatives of tourism companies, trade unions, and business circles of Russia and Uzbekistan. Representatives of the Tatarstan and Uzbekistan business communities signed a series of agreements on mutually beneficial cooperation.

At the end of the day, an official reception was organised in the Pillar Room of the Kazan City Hall with the participation of Tatarstan officials. The event was attended by Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan German Lerner.

The honorary organisers of the event were representatives of the Uzbek side: Acting Chairman of the Uzbekistan State Committee for Tourism Development Abdulaziz Akkulov and Consul General of Uzbekistan in Kazan Fariddin Nasriev.

Today, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan hosted a regular meeting of the Committee to Combat Illicit Trafficking of Industrial Products in Tatarstan. This time it was about the results of the supervision over the circulation of counterfeit dairy products in the republic in the first 6 months of 2019. The meeting was chaired by Minister Albert Karimov.

In her report, Head of the Rospotrebnadzor Office in Tatarstan Marina Patyashina said: “In the course of supervisory measures in the first half of the year, no cases were revealed of dairy products falsification from Tatarstan producers, only violations of imported products from other regions were recorded”.

Deputy Head of Tatarstan Office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Yevgeny Ivanov, informed the audience of the need to issue accompanying veterinary documents for products such as butter, cream, condensed milk, and other finished dairy products from July 1, 2019. This measure would significantly reduce opportunities for falsification of dairy products. From November 1, 2019, veterinary certificates will be issued for all dairy products.

Summing up the meeting, Minister Karimov proposed to unite the efforts of regulatory and law enforcement agencies in order to identify and counter the spread of counterfeit products in the consumer market of Tatarstan.